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5 ways you can support AAC users to participate in conversations

AAC users can face some challenges in speaking up in day-to-day conversations. Learn how to support and encourage AAC users to take their turn. With some pre-planning and preparation, they can join the conversation.

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AAC Awareness Month 2021: Presume competence, always

At AssistiveWare, we make Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) apps. Still, there is far more to AAC than downloading an app to an iPad or printing out a communication board and sticking it to the wall. That’s why this AAC Awareness Month, we want to focus on one of the guiding principles of AAC - presuming competence.

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AAC online learning: what we need for success

Remote learning can be a challenge. In this blog, we identify useful tips for AAC users, families and professionals to improve online connections.

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Autism Acceptance: My Voice, My Choice

AssistiveWare wants to focus April’s Autism Acceptance Month on all the different ways in which autistic people communicate.

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Using AAC in hospitals during the coronavirus

Many AAC users may be at a high risk for hospitalization during the coronavirus. Plan for AAC use in medical settings.

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Keep AAC germ free during the coronavirus

Learn about how we can keep our AAC germ-free to reduce the risk of transmission of the coronavirus.

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Just Ask: What we can learn from AAC users

Last year, we launched a new section of our website called Learn AAC. Our next project was to better support AAC users themselves. Here we share the insights we got from AAC users on their experiences.

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Making a paper-based AAC book

AssistiveWare’s Amanda, Speech Language Pathologist, shares how to create a paper-based AAC book of your vocabulary. With it you will always have a backup communication system if anything should happen to your device.

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Playing games and using AAC

Got the game? Check!Got some players? Check!AAC system ready? Check!Having fun? Check!Building communication? Check!

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Supporting all forms of communication

Communication can be defined as exchanging information by speaking, writing or some other means. It’s how we give and receive messages. But it is so much more than that.

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Wonderful (Core) Words of the Week

AssistiveWare's SLPs Amanda and Jennifer look at the Core Word of the Week Planners, one of the resources of the AssistiveWare Core Word Classroom, which help with focused modeling and teaching of a specific core word.

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Giving AAC users the power of independent communication

Our greatest wish for AAC learners is that they will become successful and independent communicators. We want them to have the power to say “what they want; when they want; to whomever they want; wherever they want.”

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